2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/03/2021 | 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM | A Guide for Parents: understanding best practice recommendations for children with unilateral hearing loss | Topical Breakout
A Guide for Parents: understanding best practice recommendations for children with unilateral hearing loss
In 2019, the Consensus practice parameter: audiological assessment and management of unilateral hearing loss in children was published in the International Journal of Audiology. (citation: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14992027.2019.1654620?scroll=top&needAccess=true ) The objective of this paper was to provide recommendations to audiologists for the management of children with unilateral hearing loss (UHL) and for needed research that can lend further insight into important unanswered questions. As a result of this collaborative work from the field, a companion guide specifically for parents was created. This session will highlight the parent guide and share how this important information in the field of audiology can be shared with parents. The author of the Parent Guide (DesGeorges) and a parent of a daughter with UHL (Janning) will share from their perspectives.
- o The participants will understand the four principles covered in the guide: 1. Identification and assessment; 2. Management and monitoring; 3. Technology management; 4. Information to be conveyed to Families.
- o The participants will glean useful knowledge on how Professional Practice Standards are useful for families to have knowledge of to be meaningful partners in shared decision making with their audiologists.
- o Participants will have access to and be prepared to utilize the product developed for parents in clinical practice, and education dissemination.
Presentation:
23278_13526JanetDesGeorges.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Janet DesGeorges
(), Hands & Voices, janet@handsandvoices.org;
Janet DesGeorges lives in Boulder, Colorado and is Executive Director of Hands & Voices Headquarters. Janet has presented to groups worldwide about the experiences of families as they journey through life with a child with deafness or hearing loss. Ms. DesGeorges received a program certificate from the MCH Public Health Leadership Institute in 2011 at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
As an EHDI Systems advocate, Janet believes in the principles and guiding philosophies of Hands & Voices towards a parent-driven, professionally-collaborative approach when supporting families in the early years. Her areas of interest include Leadership Development for parents who participate in systemic improvement; Deaf Education Reform and Improvement; Children’s Safety and Success(preventing child abuse and neglect); Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Systems; and Parent/Professional partnerships in Quality Improvement processes.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Shelli Janning
(), Parent, janning4@hotmail.com;
Shelli Janning is the Program Coordinator for the Nebraska Hands & Voices Guide by Your Side program. Shelli has her Master’s Degree in Human Services and has worked in the field of Special Education for 11 years before devoting her time more specifically to the Deaf and hard of hearing population. She is very passionate about advocacy and self-empowerment. Shelli is married to Mark and they have two daughters, Jerzie is 15 and Brooke who is 13 and is hard of hearing. Brooke has a unilateral hearing loss and wore a hearing aid for several years until she received a Cochlear Implant in July 2019.
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